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  • 08.13.2009 4:27 PM PDT

- Hey mars, can you smell that?
- Smell what??
- Uranus.
[Insert troll face here]

i dont know

  • 08.13.2009 4:28 PM PDT

Go Rams and Missouri!

First, they still need to mass-produce the game and get it ready to sell and shipped. Then, they just wait for a time that people will buy. It's usually ready to sell only a week or two before release.

  • 08.13.2009 4:28 PM PDT

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to make people wait

  • 08.13.2009 4:29 PM PDT

..........

They try to hype it too

  • 08.13.2009 4:30 PM PDT
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i think it would be suspence
my freind recently told me that bungie are the best at driping information slowly about a game making more people want 2 know more and making more people buy the game
if they said the release date now not many people will know and they wouldnt sell enough copies to make a prophet
do u agree???

  • 08.13.2009 4:31 PM PDT

I love you stosh.

So that most people will not go and pick it up, having thus drowned in their own pool of Saliva after drooling so much over the Desperate Measures ViDoc.

  • 08.13.2009 4:32 PM PDT

to make the discs, do you think they just go poof and there in gamestop ?

  • 08.13.2009 4:38 PM PDT

oh gawd

Posted By: timcha810
to make the discs, do you think they just go poof and there in gamestop ?

I wish to believe so lol

  • 08.13.2009 4:43 PM PDT

1. To mass produce the discs (i doubt it takes all this time)
2. Original Halo 3 release date?
3. Most pay days are at the end of the month - the best time to put a new product out
4. Marketing - they havent exactly hyped it a lot at the moment, well in comparison to halo 3

[Edited on 08.14.2009 3:47 PM PDT]

  • 08.14.2009 3:47 PM PDT

To give people more time 2 pre order.

Pre-ordering makes all buyers hav 2 go 2 the store twice.


[Edited on 08.14.2009 3:54 PM PDT]

  • 08.14.2009 3:48 PM PDT

I <3 you, Shishka.

www.cheathappens.com/default.asp?refid=67880

1. Make game
2. Hype up game
3. ???????????
4. PROFIT

  • 08.14.2009 3:49 PM PDT

Also whos 2 say its completely done.

Thers prob tons off bug and glitch.

  • 08.14.2009 3:51 PM PDT
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The game has been finished since May (watch at 0:38).

  • 08.14.2009 3:54 PM PDT
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People keep telling me to get a life... I am getting an education, I have a lovely girlfriend and alot of friends... I thought this was having a life? Gues I was wrong...

Well, first what they need to do is fix bugs, add cool features and more stuff to the game. Even though the game is done they can still add to it to make it more cool, add more cut scenes, make the enemies think better, add more terrain. Then they need plan a worldwide release(Which my game distributor seems to have a hard time understanding) so that it will be out everywhere at september 22. Then they need to make hundreds of thousands of discs or maybe even millions, for all the people who are buying the game, even for those who said "I wont be buying the game" will most likely still buy it, so they need to make discs for them too. And seeing as it is two discs with ODST, they most likely need to make about 5 million discs, maybe even more... It takes more than an afternoon to make that many.

[EDIT] Sutipd splelnig erors!

[Edited on 08.14.2009 3:57 PM PDT]

  • 08.14.2009 3:56 PM PDT

Posted by: Tobinindyy
1. Make game
2. Hype up game
3. ???????????
4. PROFIT


Slow down brother.

If you get me

[Edited on 08.14.2009 3:57 PM PDT]

  • 08.14.2009 3:56 PM PDT
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"BAM" said the lady...

Posted by: Carbon847
why do they make the release date so long after the game is already done?


Alfa and beta tests to find bugs.
Find them and correct time'
2nd phase of testing fixing more bugs.
3rd-4th round of testing to make sure there are very few bugs left.
This testing takes time
Also there are fine tuning until the day before the game is shipped to it's retailers.
Changing a little thing here and there to improve the game.
Also they wanna build a lot of tension before the game goes on sale.
And start a lot of whining/conspiracy theories on the forums.
Bungie style! :D

  • 08.14.2009 4:14 PM PDT

to make more copies

  • 08.14.2009 4:32 PM PDT
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Polish, time to market it, and to actually get the game printed onto the discs.

  • 08.14.2009 4:33 PM PDT
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I notice time that light has reflection for, like the rainy magic of nobody else on a lovely day.

The internettes need recalibrating.

  • 08.14.2009 4:34 PM PDT

-I was here

Posted by: mcaleer X
1. To mass produce the discs (i doubt it takes all this time)
2. Original Halo 3 release date?
3. Most pay days are at the end of the month - the best time to put a new product out
4. Marketing - they havent exactly hyped it a lot at the moment, well in comparison to halo 3


you for got to mention they set it to release 77 days after bungie day.

oh and to the op, if you don't like the release date, blame stosh

  • 08.14.2009 4:36 PM PDT